Son of the Earth - the exhibition of Pang xunqin’s works during 1930s and 1940s, organized by Chinese Artists Association, the municipal government of Changshu, the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, Beijing Artists Association, Beijing Art Academy, and undertook by the art gallery of Beijing Art Academy and the art gallery of Pang xunqin, opened on the 15th of Oct. at the art gallery of Beijing Fine Art Academy Exhibits include 72 pieces of works provided by the art gallery of Pang xunqin, 19 photographs of lost works, and partial viewdata of Pang. This exhibition made a concentrated presentation of Pang’s works of oil painting, sketch, water color painting, line drawing, calligraphy and design blueprint during 1930s and 1940s. Besides, the art gallery of Beijing Art Academy took this opportunity to reprint the enlarged edition of Research of Chinese Decorated Picture of Various Dynasties by Pang. To playback the process of how Pang wrote this book, posters, old manuscripts, and historical documents were employed in this exhibition. The exhibition will continue until the 10th of Nov, workshops and lectures will be held concurrently with the exhibition.

         Having inspired by the long drought in the south of Chang Jiang River in 1930s, Pang displayed the destitution in his oil painting Son of the Earth, which has been on show in the 3rd Jue lanshe exhibition in 1934, and was one of the most famous works of Pang. It’s the first draft in watercolor painting that is on exhibition this time. He employed way of simplification and lengthening to represent features. Flat color in large area, plane surface, and decorative style were his favorite to manifest simplicity and strength. Pang made foreign forms serve Chinese emotion, and verve, including the application of model and streak. Son of the Earth was the very concrete embodiment of his proposition of “developing the modernization of China’s academic, enhancing the sinicization of foreign one”

         Under the huge support from Pang’s art gallery and family, we are honored to shape this exhibition today. We selected Pang’s works created during his golden age in this exhibition, in memory of Pang, the antecessor of China’s arts in last century.